My house is full, really full. I have 3 teenagers, me and my dh, my inlaws , and my sd's baby in the house this year. My inlaws are putting an addition on to my house and going to live there. right now they have turned our dining room into their bedroom. My sd who had the baby is in my living room, waiting for inlaws to move into addition and then going to take their spot in dining room. we are trying to make this all work along with contractors coming in/out starting at 730 in the morning and leaving at 4pm. I watch baby every other week.

  I am starting to get burned out. My DH and I have a farm, 3 teenagers, 1 grandchild, and my inlaws.  My DH is in the military and also has a "civilian" job. I run the house and farm during the day and every other week I watch sd16's baby until she gets out of school at 4pm. The teenagers are very adept at helping to run the farm so it's not a big deal if we have to go out of town for a short time occasionally. Recently , we had a weekend anniversary trip and everything was ok. This week, my DH had to go to D.C.

Sometimes I wonder why in the hell my dh ever married his ex to begin with. She is completely nuts! She has destroyed her children, disowned one completely, and is a complete narcissistic A-Hole! My dh and I have worked so hard to basically keep her drama out of our lives. Unfortunately one of the sd's recently went to live with her and is pretty much just like her. I have never ever ever in my life met anyone so freakin horrible. Someone who should pretty much be in jail but always gets away with crap.

  Since my SD17 left(see my previous posts) I have been slowly recovering and moving forward. I didn't fully realize exactly what toll the stress in the house was taking on everyone until she left and we all could start breathing again. The negative vortex was turning me into someone I could barely recognize anymore. My own 2 bios were completely stressed out and my younger sd was stressed.